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'Nightmare Gas' (3 Parts) by Don Houghton Mr. Sweet is visited by Doctor Winthrop, who urgently needs help in locating a consignment of his deadly hallucinogenic gas known as ‘H23’, so called because it induces sleep and then horrifying nightmares in its victims, who then die of shock after...

'Joker' (3 Parts) by P.J. Hammond A bizarre troupe of travelling players dressed as playing-card characters is run by the eccentric Uncle Harry; operating out of their brightly-decorated bus they journey across the country visiting schools and entertaining the pupils. However, these good...

SERIES 2 'Seven Serpents, Sulphur and Salt' (3 Parts) by Trevor Preston A man named John Christopher arrives at Mr. Sweet’s bookshop, desperate to see the bookseller, but he is killed shortly after hiding a parchment inside one of the antique books. In a sinister taxidermist’s shop...

'The Smile' (4 Parts) by Trevor Preston Mr. Sweet is invited to the Bond Street art gallery owned by Bartlett Bonnington; however, when Sam and Lulli go in his place, they soon find themselves in the middle of a very strange robbery. An old lady named Mrs. Kite uses a pair of lorgnettes to...

'Now You See It, Now You Don’t' (2 Parts) by Don Houghton After a daring robbery takes place at his bank, the manager seeks the help of Mr. Sweet; the bookseller turns once more to Tarot for his help in solving the crime, and so the magician and his friends set off on the trail of the...

'The Mind Robbers' (4 Parts) by William Emms Tarot is asked to investigate the mysterious disappearance of two important government ministers; intrigued, Tarot, Sam and Lulli set off to track them down. The kidnappings point to a strange house owned by Señor Zandar, which is bizarrely...

New single " Wake Up" from forthcoming album. Can't wait, should be a cracker judging by this song.

8. What Pleases The Prince "We always said there'd be Peace Crimes Trials one day ... We're winning now. There'll have to be a purge of the PCD soon." The dissident assault on the Public Control Department has been successful, but the public suicide of a cell member has resulted in world...

7. Young Sparks "Kyle'll be back to normal in about an hour. Until then he'll probably show an amusing tendency to tell the truth." Groups of dissidents, once-divided in their opposition to the Public Control Department, are putting aside their differences in a bid to bring down the bureaucratic...

6. You'll Never Walk Alone "The authorities have refused me an exit visa for the Chess Championship because they fear I might not come back." Having lost his job as the home affairs correspondent at The Star, Kyle is reduced to covering the European Chess Championship. While there, he meets the...

5. Hire And Fire "If Kyle can uncover those extortionists where an expert PCD man failed, he is obviously implicated with them." When workers fall prey to an extortionist network collecting money in exchange for their continued silence, Kyle's involvement attracts the attention of PCD controller...

4. Ordeal By Small Brown Envelope "Authorised Systematic Harassment has enormous potential. The slow and noiseless steamroller of the State. The daily brown envelope dropping on the mat". The Public Control Department, in response to more dissident remarks printed in the underground press from...

3. Trapline "Who are we out to nail? Careguard, the Home Secretary or Skardon and the PCD?" Jim Kyle is in trouble - he has fallen into the hands of Police Commissioner Hallam. The question is, will Hallam hand Kyle over to the PCD or is Hallam working on his own?

2. The Market Price "This mate of yours is a shark. With his jaws into whole cargoes. Petrol. Fags. Booze. Grub. It's up to us to nanny him?". When availability of food in the supermarkets steadily vanishes, Kate Smith's government turns its attention to black marketeers profiting from illicit...

Series 2 1. Pentagons There's good news and bad news in Britain. The good news: Home Secretary Dan Mellor has been replaced by Kate Smith, and a "pentagon" - one of a growing army of dissident groups - is preparing to take on the hatred PCD. The bad news: the PCD's new Deputy Controller is Lynn...

8. Non- Citizen After the Kyle Trial fiasco, Skardon takes his revenge by turning Kyle into a Non-Citizen: stripping Kyle of his ID and Union cards, freezing his bank account and seizing all his assets. With no home, no car, no job, no money, only the clothes on his back and his family missing...

7. Witness Dr. Alan Vickers, whom Kyle and Brett helped escape, has been campaigning throughout the United States to get public and world opinion to force the PCD to let his wife and daughter emigrate. The problem is that in his speeches he may have let clues drop that may lead Skardon and the...

6. Whatever Happened To Cardinal Wolsey The Ombudsman's Court supposedly exists to hear and review appeals by citizens and consists of a tribunal of judges, but every appeal is rejected despite the legitimacy of the claim. However, one judge, Philip Carter, is determined to fight the corrupt...

5. Voice From The Past The age of the common man seems to be degenerating into the age of the common denominator". When the Public Control Department take steps to shut down an underground newspaper peddling dissident stories critical of the regime, Kyle provides assistance to its publisher...

4. Decoy "This is an island prison. Getting us all together is one thing. Getting us out is something else". High-profile political adviser Doctor Sondeberg, a man responsible for the rising fortunes of a variety of presidents, pays a state visit to the United Kingdom on a fact-finding mission...